After what feels like an eternity, I awoke this morning
inspired to shake off the mantle of silence and re-acquaint myself with my dear
confidante, this blog. Why all of a sudden, you ask? Who knows. The inner workings of my mind are a
mystery, especially to me. Because I’m bored? Because I finally (after 3 years) figured out
how to connect my blogger account to my new Google+ account? Because I’ve been doing some fun things I’d
love to document for my own posterity? Check, check, check and more.
In any case, a quick catch up on life:
The family is fine: Delta
and I are still living in our little (read: cozy) apartment in the Big Apple,
with our two kitties, who are more than enough to keep us on our toes. Three
years into their sororal relationship, Queen Jaffa and Charlie Parker are now
solidly frenemies. They sleep right up next to each other. They spat. They
hiss. They sniff butts and sometimes kiss. But most importantly, they know they’re
safe, and loved, and the other conflicting complexities that make for cat-on-cat
interactions simply pale in comparison. Cos and Dr G still live just a few
blocks down the road, with their little kids who have now sprouted into real
beings. They squawk and talk and walk,
and everyday surprise Delta and me with the crazy workings of the infant mind.
The friends grew up
too: When it comes to friends, three years can seem a lifetime. When I last
left off, Bobbs, Doobie and McPanj were still roommates in midtown Manhattan.
Since then, they’re all growns up, some have gotten married, and our circle has
inclusively morphed into a larger and more complex set of dynamics. Bobbis is
now a part of duo “Bobbis and Po”. A lovely chap, and we’ll always love Bobbis
all the more for bringing him into our lives. Doobie, in a heart-thumpingly
swift twelve months, fell in love with a beau in London(!), engaged in a series
of frenetic back-and-forth visits, and earlier this year, tied the knot in
lovely City Hall. McPanj moved into an apartment right up on the UES by Delta
and me, and we love love love having her just a stone’s throw away!
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| The Bobbis-Po dynamic duo |
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| Doobie and her Trans-Atlantic dalliance |
And me: I’ve
grown up all over again. The same person, and yet an entirely different one.
More perspective, more maturity, more awareness. Gentler. Kinder. More
experience. I’ve certainly had my moments, but overall, it’s been a great few
years, and everyday I realize just how lucky Delta and I are, to have all we
have.
Life is an adventure:
Somewhere during this bloggerial hiatus, I changed jobs a couple times, and
am now at a small French tech firm. And
boy, it’s been an adventure! Startup life is just entirely different. A lot more bumpy, but a lot more
rewarding. And if it’s a French startup,
and peppered along the way are the occasional trips to Paris, then so much the
better. Delta and I have taken advantage
of those fabulous flight benefits, and traveled as much as we could spare.
Hawaii, Tuscany, the Boundary Waters, Mt Rainier.
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| Lake Atitlan, Guatemala |
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| Kalalau Trail, Kauai, Hawai'i |
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| Lunigiana, Tuscany |
We’re on the brink of our future, and the only constraints
are ourselves. The options seem suddenly limitless.
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